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University of St. Thomas
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,800
Ramsey
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$107,251
Fund Source
Crow Wing
Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Ramsey County SWCD is applying to continue the implementation of its popular and successful well sealing cost-share program to help protect the groundwater, especially in highly vulnerable drinking water supply management areas, by permanently and professionally sealing between 115 and 140 abandoned wells in the county.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,200
Fund Source
Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey-Washington Metro WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$205,606
Fund Source

This project will improve the water quality of lakes in Ramsey and Washington Counties. This will be accomplished by: 1) installation of filtration basins adjacent to Wakefield Lake to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution, and 2) construction of raingardens on private property that filter stormwater runoff thereby reducing sediment and nutrient pollution to Battle Creek Lake and Kohlman Creek. This project is funded through the Ramsey County and Washington County allocations of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Ramsey
Recipient
Vadnais Lake Area WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,039
Fund Source

This project will conduct a subwatershed feasibility study to identify and prioritize project locations for retrofit of stormwater best management practices. The project will also include installation of the highest priority stormwater improvement practice to reduce nutrient pollution to Goose Lake. This project is funded through the Anoka County and Ramsey County allocations of the Watershed-Based Funding Pilot Program for the Seven County Metropolitan Area.

Ramsey
Recipient
Area 1 - Red River Valley Conservation Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Grant
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,500
Fund Source
Stearns
Recipient
Becker SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Becker
Recipient
Clay SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Clay
Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Ramsey
Recipient
Becker SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Becker
Recipient
Clay SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source
Clay
Recipient
Crow Wing SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Crow Wing
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source
Stearns
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$936,000
Fund Source

Water control structures and dikes were designed and constructed on six Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) in the counties of Becker, Clearwater, Itasca, Lincoln, Roseau, and Yellow Medicine. Dike work at Roseau River WMA protects and enhances 3200 acres of wetlands wetlands in Pool 2 of the WMA. Roseau River WMA has 10 large water control structures, seven moist soil cells, and four large pools covering 11,800 acres. Cells for a moist soil unit were constructed at Lac Qui Parle WMA in Lac Qui Parle County.

Becker
Clearwater
Itasca
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Roseau
Todd
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500,000
Fund Source

We protected 22.3 miles of trout streams and 1.3 miles of lakeshore via easements (585 acres in total), and 7.4 miles (504 acres) of lakeshore through fee-title purchase. We enhanced shoreline habitat on 524 acres of riparian land, and instream habitat on 3.1 miles of trout streams and 0.5 miles of warmwater rivers.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Blue Earth
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lake
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Redwood
Rice
Scott
St. Louis
Swift
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,652,000
Fund Source

This appropriation funded 283 projects totaling 21,953 acres. The two largest types of enhancement were 112 woody removal projects totaling 10,160 acres and 134 prescribed burns totaling 10,082 acres. Additionally, we seeded 30 sites totaling 1386 acres, put in infrastructure for conservation grazing of 236 acres on 3 sites, conducted 3 oak savanna enhancements totaling 42 acres, and treated 47 acres of invasive species on 2 sites.

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,815,000
Fund Source

This program accelerated the permanent protection of 2,267 acres of wetlands (465 acres) and grasslands (1,802 acres) as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting in Minnesota. Over the course of the appropriation, PF acquired 18 parcels for a total of 2,267 acres which exceeded our total acre goal of 2,250 acres by 17 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we exceeded our acre goal for both the metropolitan area by 61 acres and in the prairie area by 346 acres. We have exceeded anticipated match of $5,125,000 by $771,500.

Blue Earth
Clay
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Meeker
Murray
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$826,000
Fund Source

This program of on-the-ground conservation projects increased the wildlife and ecological values of forest communities on Minnesota's public forestlands. Restoration and enhancement projects in this program enhanced more than 10,000 acres of forest.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,061,000
Fund Source

The goal of this phase of the WPA acquisition program was to protect a total of 915 acres of grassland, wetland and other wildlife habitats as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting. Pheasants Forever purchased 10 parcels totaling 1,150.27 acres of wetlands and grasslands in Minnesota's prairie region. In addition to exceeding our acre goals, $ 37,512.95 of grant funds will be returned.

Big Stone
Clay
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Meeker
Otter Tail
Stearns
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
City of Mora
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,241

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Kanabec
Pine
Mille Lacs
Isanti
Chisago
Aitkin
Washington
Carver
Ramsey
Hennepin
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community AKA Hallberg Center for the Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,950

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Washington
Pine
Mille Lacs
Ramsey
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community AKA Hallberg Center for the Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

ACHF Grant for General Operations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Washington
Ramsey
Anoka
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Milaca AKA Milaca Parks Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,920
Rec Fest 2012
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,616

2012 3-D Concert Series

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Phase 2 Michael Richards Memorial Bronze Sculpture

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,990

2012 Community Collaboration Hot Metal Pour

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,900
Fund Source

Acquire 2.5 acres for Trout Brook Regional Trail

Ramsey
Recipient
Stearns History Museum and Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,867
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Stearns
Recipient
Becker County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,927
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis
Becker
Recipient
VSA Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$216,000
Very Special Arts of Minnesota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Anoka
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,981
Ramsey
Recipient
North Shore Music Association
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,119

Art Project Grant

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Ramsey
Recipient
Cultural Awareness Organization
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Art Project

Nobles
Cottonwood
Murray
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lyon
Pipestone
Dakota
Rock
Stearns
Hennepin
Blue Earth
Faribault
Recipient
New London Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Art Project

Anoka
Chippewa
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Meeker
Olmsted
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wright